When It’s Done

The above phrase touches my life wherever craft enters. It refers to the phrase which is most appropriate when the question of the timing of the finished product is asked by myself, a client or a bystander. With the furniture I make, I have found…

The Wall

The first I can remember anyone talking about this wall is when I read some Plato. He wrote about a cave in which there was a light that threw shadows on the walls. These were the shadows of the ideals of the things we see…

Art

There were three venues for this word when I was a boy: is it art or science, art for art’s sake and Art Carney, Jackie Gleason’s upstairs neighbor in the Honeymooners. The word has, in my later life, been given another place: people will come…

Ain’t They

To the best of my remembrance, he was a merchant marine sailor, getting older, who was on shore leave and staying with his niece and her family. His niece and her husband held a bible study at their home once a week, and he was…